Draco & Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 11693

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> Catlady wrote:
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> In an earlier post, many eons ago (October? November?) I posited 
that
> Snape is actually not that fond of Draco, and is doing him no 
favors by
> favoring him so much. Harry and his friends will know how to deal 
with
> adversity when they need to. Draco will not. What a wonderful,
> double-edged stroke at the Malfoys. [I think this thread was called
> something like "A New (I Hope) Snape Theory" or something, if anyone
> cares enough to look it up.]

I don't think he's doing this consciously, though. I'd suspect Snape 
hasn't thought this through and doesn't subscribe to the um, 
unscheduled adversity theory of schooling. Certainly we have no idea 
what Snape really thinks of Dumbledore's unorthodox methods of 
managing the students. I'm not sure if he considers Draco to be his 
favorite student either. He seems to back up Draco mostly to torment 
Harry and his friends. He favors the other Slytherins as well, one 
would guess, but they don't show up in direct conflict with Harry 
(the limited POV problem again) enough for us to see this. 

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Charmian